Thursday, May 22, 2014

I’ve been staring at this drawing for about six or seven
months and finally got around to painting it.Blondie passed in June of 2012 leaving a pretty big hole in our
hearts.I was trying to figure out how
to render the background.Either I
render it as a detailed backdrop or a vignette of some sort.

Detail

Then I saw a figurative painting in which an
artist used a palette knife to lay in the background and I had my “a-ha“ moment.So here it is and I’m happy with the outcome.

The initial pencil drawing with several coats of spray
fixative.

This time around I did a Burnt Siena acrylic wash to set up
my under painting.

A mixture of turps and burnt Umber were scrubbed into the
canvas and then wiped off with a paper towel.

Using a palette knife I painted in the background.

Here I started in setting up my shadows and at this stage
painting in Blondie’s face.

Saturday, May 17, 2014

I
played around with the lighting on this one a bit to capture its essence.
Because it was already in a state of wilting and losing petals I wanted to
catch what translucency it still had before totally drying out and falling
apart.

Detail

We have several rose bushes in our front and side gardens and this one was begging to be the subject given the fact that most of the roses weren’t in bloom.

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Maurice is a Los Angeles based artist. A graduate from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Ca, BFA. Currently, he works in the animation industry as a freelance designer. After years in pre-production design he started getting back to his first passion since childhood, oil painting. An influence inspired by his father Maurice Sr.